Hello all,
A friend of mine who owns a coffee shop, of course, offers wifi to his customers. Now he recently decided to replace his six year old router, and when setting up the new router, to his surprise discovered his modem is, in fact, a wireless router as well, and it's been on and running for six years.
So the question is how can we properly set this up to just use the router and disable the wireless in the modem. The modem is down under the counter and wouldn't serve well as a wireless router anyway.
So this new wireless router is attached to a modem that is itself a wireless router, and the modem has its DHCP on. Therefore the new router is being assigned a new ip address every 72 hours (see Network Settings).
You can see in the Network Settings screenshot three devices connected:
Archer C7 is the router
23181422 is, I'm assuming, the 'point of sale' machine to read credit cards.
DELL-6430u is my Dell laptop.
Now I'm no expert, but shouldn't the router and the other device be assigned a static ip address instead and the modem's DHCP turned off? Further, in the Wireless Settings for the modem, shouldn't I disable the 'Primary Wireless Network' and disable the 'Broadcast Primary SSID'?
Lastly, you can see there is no DHCP confilct as the ip addresses are different in the attached router's DHCP Settings
We don't want the router being assigned a new ip address every 4320 minutes (72 hours), do we??
Regards,
A friend of mine who owns a coffee shop, of course, offers wifi to his customers. Now he recently decided to replace his six year old router, and when setting up the new router, to his surprise discovered his modem is, in fact, a wireless router as well, and it's been on and running for six years.
So the question is how can we properly set this up to just use the router and disable the wireless in the modem. The modem is down under the counter and wouldn't serve well as a wireless router anyway.
So this new wireless router is attached to a modem that is itself a wireless router, and the modem has its DHCP on. Therefore the new router is being assigned a new ip address every 72 hours (see Network Settings).
You can see in the Network Settings screenshot three devices connected:
Archer C7 is the router
23181422 is, I'm assuming, the 'point of sale' machine to read credit cards.
DELL-6430u is my Dell laptop.
Now I'm no expert, but shouldn't the router and the other device be assigned a static ip address instead and the modem's DHCP turned off? Further, in the Wireless Settings for the modem, shouldn't I disable the 'Primary Wireless Network' and disable the 'Broadcast Primary SSID'?
Lastly, you can see there is no DHCP confilct as the ip addresses are different in the attached router's DHCP Settings
We don't want the router being assigned a new ip address every 4320 minutes (72 hours), do we??
Regards,
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